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It’s Sunday, so biblefagging in the general is expected…. altho I like to make all the days the sabbath.

As Q acknowledged by referencing John 3:16 in his drops, Jesus is our savior.

Jesus was based af about the Jews and in fact, him speaking out against them is what got Jesus killed.

The Pharisees of Jesus’ time is who gave modern day jews their rabbinical authoritative texts, the Babylonian Talmud.. not to mention the satanic black magic book cabbalah (cabal) was just an added bonus.

Enjoy your Sundays… and remember Jesus criticized the Jews without hating them… and we can do the same.

"Iran has proxies. One of them is Hezbollah. Hezbollah just joined the government of Lebanon. That's a misnomer; they actually control the government of Lebanon. It means that Iran controls the government of Lebanon," Netanyahu’s office quoted him as saying at a meeting with a delegation of UN ambassadors who arrived in Israel to make a trip of the northern border.

It was Netanyahu’s first commentary following the formation of a new Lebanese government next Thursday.

"A great shift has taken place in the Middle East. That shift is the rise of the aggressive theocracy of Iran that seeks to conquer the Middle East, eliminate Israel and dominate many other parts of the world," the Israeli prime minister said and asked the UN ambassadors to convey the message that Israel will "stop all the aggression; from Lebanon or from Syria or from Iran itself."

"We are committed to preventing this aggression, and in so doing we're not only protecting Israel itself, but also protecting our neighbors and world peace," he stressed.

It took Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri more than eight months to form a new government of 30 ministers. Two of the thirty are women. Eleven ministerial portfolios went to the Strong Lebanon Bloc which supports the country’s President Michel Aoun. The government also includes representatives of the Al-Mustaqbal Sunni movement, the Lebanese Forces Christian party, the Hezbollah and Amal Shia movements, the Druze and Armenian communities.

In a startling revelation, an editor for major populist online publication Voice of Europe is accused of working for British police intelligence as part of a program targeting political organizations in the UK and broader Europe. The alleged breach comes several weeks after Disobedient Media highlighted the danger of the UK becoming involved with the Gilets Jaunes protests for geopolitical gain.

Disappearance Leads To Scrutiny Of Voice Of Europe's Editor

The operation was first exposed on January 1, 2019 by independent researcher Nicholas Monroe, who had grown concerned over the disappearance of Peter Imanuelson, a Norwegian-born UK national living in North Yorkshire and blogging under the alias Peter Sweden. Imanuelson, who was known for his affiliation with identitarian and populist movements in Europe such as Defend Europe, had caused alarm by ceasing his usually constant Twitter activity for the month of December 2018. Monroe's investigation revealed troubling indications that Imanuelson had become wrapped up in a British police intelligence operation that has been known to target right-wing and far-left political movements across Europe.

Imanuelson had become engaged in November to an editor and "second in command" of the right-wing populist news website Voice of Europe. The editor, known by the moniker of "Laura Cat," claims to be a 25-year-old unmarried woman. However, "Laura Cat's" own social media posts established that she is in fact a married mother whose brother in law is an employee of the UK Metropolitan police.

In 2009, the Guardian revealed that a British police officer had traveled to 22 different countries on a fake passport including Ireland, Iceland and Spain. Targeted movements included green, “anti-racist” and anarchist groups. Kennedy was a member of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit, a secretive organization run by a private limited company which allows it to remain exempt from freedom of information laws and other public accountability checks and balances. A database published by the Guardian on October 15th, 2018 revealed that British police had infiltrated 124 movements since the 1970’s and would even engage in sexual relationships with targets. According to a statement from Imanuelson, "Laura Cat" also works with an unnamed anti-trafficking charity that collaborates with MI5 and the US Department of Justice.

Peter Imanuelson's father Emanuel revealed that since Peter had begun speaking to "Laura Cat," their family had been systematically targeted by hacking and phone tapping attempts. When Imanuelson confronted the woman about his concerns that she was a part of a government program to target his son, he was blocked on social media both by her personal account as well as by the Voice of Europe.

Further statements from Emanuel Imanuelson indicate that "Laura Cat" was allegedly part of a program targeting political organizations and figures in both the US and Europe. According to Imanuelson's father, targets include Wikileaks, the Voice of Europe's owners, Polish politician Dominik Tarczyński, unnamed Republican politicians, a "person close to Donald Trump," Tommy Robinson and UKIP politician Janice Atkinson. "Laura Cat" had also purportedly hoped to use her connections with Voice of Europe to develop ties to high profile figures such as Geert Wilders, Marie Le Pen, Matteo Salvini and Viktor Orban. The Voice of Europe editor has also done design work for independent journalists such as Laura Loomer.

If the testimony of Imanuelson's family and research by Nick Monroe is confirmed, it will represent a major breach of security for anti-establishment movements in the US and Europe. In November 2018, a report from Mintpress News revealed that American white supremacists had received training from the Ukrainian Neo Nazi group the Azov Battalion, who are assisted by the Ukrainian, US and Israeli governments. Far-right groups in Ukraine such as Right Sector are also working with Islamic militants who have received training from ISIS in Syria.

Infiltration of extremist groups on the left and right is a known tactic of security forces, but the UK's program appears to be seeking to broadly target more mainstream populist movements and public figures. It raises serious questions about the possibility that similar operations may exist in the US and Canada as well. Much like CIA infiltration of left wing protest groups during the Cold War, the British approach allows them to use their assets to control narratives fed to supporters, hamper the effectiveness of populist movements and direct policy in a way that will benefit them politically.

Summary of 1957 interview with Margaret Sanger for anons. Interview is about birth control and not abortion.

* Birth control was a dirty word back in the early 1900s.

* Sanger's crusade broke up her first marriage.

* She came from large family. 11 children.

* Trained nurse.

* Women wanted birth control.

* Father was a village atheist.

* Sanger and siblings were called "children of the devil."

* Sanger says she is a humanitarian and doesn't like to see people suffering.

* "Where is the man to give me what the movement gives in joy and interest and freedom."

* Says population control was a motivation.

* Birth control to keep population static.

Same Malthusian Argument that Humans are the problem. We see this today via climate change.

* Wallace says that Church's position is that birth control violates a natural law.

* Sanger brings up Church is celibate and does not know marriage.

* Sanger blames Christianity for the smudge on sex.

* Sanger defends homosexuals for being born that way. Not all are perverts.

* Wallace brings up federal funding of birth control. An issue back then.

* "I think the greatest sin is bringing children into the world that have disease from their parents. That have no chance in the world to be a human being, practically. Delinquents. Prisoners. All sorts of things. Just marked when they're born.

* Sanger's clinics offer marriage counseling.

* Wallace asks if women are neglecting marriage by wanting to have a career.

Looks like the whole marriage counseling thing was being pushed way back in 1957 as an alternative to children keeping the family united.

The False Statements Accountability Act (“FSAA”) was sponsored by a one-term freshman Senator William J. Martini (NJ) who later became a federal judge. It included a bizarre Subsection (b) that permits judges, attorneys and parties to lie to Congress, courts and agencies without liability.

Why did the Custodian of the Alien Property seize the assets of Nikola Tesla, an American citizen?

Because the The ‘Pledge’ effectively conveyed the right, title and interest of the American people in the land known as America to the Custodian of the Alien Property for the use of the United States under the authority granted them within The Trading With The Enemy Act (TWEA).

Official State Nickname of Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania's nickname is "The Keystone State" because it was the middle colony of the original thirteen colonies, and because Pennsylvania has held a key position in the economic, social, and political development of the United States.

Pennstate lockeroom for the alumi's sposnored by the Clintons…. key stone of pp

In 2009, Northam—a self-described "conservative on fiscal issues and liberal on social issues"[27]—was the subject of an attempt by state Senate Republicans to get him to switch parties.[28] This action would have given Republicans control of the State Senate, but after news of the imminent switch broke on Twitter, Democrats held a closed-door meeting, and Northam reiterated that he was not leaving the party.[29] He later said, "I guess it's nice to be wanted, but I'm a Democrat, and that's where I'm staying.

Later that month, the Latino Victory Fund, which supports Northam, released an ad in which a pickup truck, adorned with a Gillespie bumper sticker, a "Don't tread on me" license plate, and a Confederate flag, chases down minority children and corners them in an alley—one of the children in the ad then wakes up, revealing the scene to have been a nightmare.[50][51] Although Northam and his campaign were not involved with the ad, Northam initially defended it, saying Gillespie's own ads "have promoted fearmongering, hatred, bigotry, racial divisiveness," and adding, "I mean, it's upset a lot of communities, and they have the right to express their views as well."[52] The ad was pulled the following day in the hours after the terrorist attack in New York City, in which a man killed several people by running them over with a truck.

In October 2017, the Northam campaign released a small number of flyers omitting Northam's running-mate for Lieutenant Governor, Justin Fairfax.

During the campaign, Gillespie and President Donald Trump accused Northam of being responsible for the increased activities of the MS-13 gangs and of being "in favor of sanctuary cities that let dangerous illegal immigrants back on the streets."[45][46] Gillespie and Trump said that Northam had been the deciding vote to stop a Republican bill in the state Senate which would have banned sanctuary cities and that this contributed to the surge in MS-13 violence.

According to The Washington Post, Northam owns stock in several companies "doing extensive work in Virginia". Northam has stated that if elected governor, he would place his financial investments into a blind trust, so as to avoid any potential conflicts of interest.

I'm a human racist. Put the crayons down in kindergarten and consider color something that operates well with color coded files as there is actually information inside worth accessing. Color coding people as a means to gage people's characteristics, morals or intentions on the other hand, can get your ass shot off unexpectedly.

Kentucky candidate for Governor (in 2019) Geoff Young said, “No Democrats voted to enact this dangerous strategy embraced by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). I never got any polls asking if the DNC should favor and direct millions of dollars to ex-CIA operatives, ex-military intelligence operatives, and ex-military war veterans.”

The strategy is a profoundly cynical attempt by the DNC to exploit the popularity of our troops in order to install more pro-war, neoconservative, Russia-hating, Iran-hating Democrats in Washington. It’s one of the most evil strategies the DNC has ever imposed on the US” he added in a recent interview.

Tip of the Iceberg

And that is just for starters in this spy vs. spy world. Not many like to consider the source but it is clear and apparent danger faced by Americans that the Democratic Party is being taken over by the intelligence community. Just to give a few examples: Representative Dave Brat of Virginia, lost to Abigail Spanberger, a first-time Democratic candidate and former CIA Operative who spent eight years recruiting and developing spies, with a focus on counterterrorism. This is more serious than what we ever could imagine with the white spy vs. black spy scenarios; both shades are set to commit subversive and covert operations in the open.

Representative Andy Barr of Kentucky barely defeated Amy McGrath, a former Marine combat aviator and first-time candidate—and also one of the birds of feather. However, the list goes on and on of those who were successful. And around a dozen so far, and who knows which ones are now lurking in the shadows for appointments and highly-paid lobbyist jobs.

What comes next is anybody’s best guess. As the Washington Post, not one of my favorite papers predicated prior to the election, how the Spooks have come in from the Cold, and they’re running for Congress. None of this should come as a surprise, as we have already been warned, as revealed in Despicable CIA Democrats

However, it would have been naïve to have believed at first sight that this was but a knee jerk reaction to Trump as president and the buzz over alleged Russians meddling in US 2016 elections, as if out of some deep patriotic duty. As the Socialist media reported, “the newly elected CIA Democrats have begun to attract considerable media attention, after an election campaign in which the high proportion of military-intelligence candidates seeking Democratic congressional nominations was largely disregarded or directly downplayed by the corporate-controlled media.”

Even feminists are in glee, as five of the 11 newly-elected CIA Democrats are women, a fact which is endlessly celebrated by the media, although there is no reason to believe that female national-security officials are any less ruthless and bloodthirsty than their male counterparts.

We really need to pick a date so anons can order MAGA hats if they don't have one. Then get the word out on social media so normies can join in. (They love a challenge, and even non-supporters would prob get a kick out of trying to wear one in a liberal city and see what happens)

Discovered Electricity not invented. And I think the light bulb was a popular chemistry experiment before Edison figured out how to vacuum seal the experiment into glass to stop rapid oxidation of the element metals.

1998 George Soros told CBS that he did not regret working with the Nazis against his fellow Jews in Hungary

1998-1999 Kosovo War used to clear out Christian Serbs from Kosovo to create unimpeded land route for planned coming Soros-funded Muslim migration; created genocide as pretext, like in Rwanda

1999 FEDERAL BRIDGE – ENTRUST PKI for Wireless monopoly (see below)

1999 Precursor to SERCO (SI International) formed by ex-Lockheed executives

1999 Clinton formed CIA In-Q-Tel as a public-private spy technology funding entity, abolished Glass-Steagall banking controls; formed National Infrastructure Assurance Council (NIAC) to run mass surveillance on all Americans from the White House

Conclusion: The Federal Bridge, aka Federal Bridge Certificate Authority was the Deep State shadow government, aka Senior Executive Service (SES)’s actual technical platform for how computer systems across the Internet could allow the spy state to tap into any system in real time.

CHILDREN should be limited to just two hours-a-time on social media – new official advice will declare next week.

In the first formal guidelines ever, the Chief Medical Officer will pile huge pressure on web giants to introduce a cut-off for under-18s.

Kids should then take “exercise breaks”. The move comes amid growing alarm at a generation hooked on social media.

Campaigners are likely to demand the crackdown – to be unveiled by Dame Sally Davies next Thursday – goes even further.

Research earlier this week found under-fives spend four hours and 16 minutes a day glued to screens – including online, ,gaming and TV.

Seven in ten of those aged 12 to 15 took smartphones to bed.

And a fifth of children aged 8-12 are on social media – despite supposed bans on under-13s. The new guidelines revealed by James Forsyth in today’s Sun follow an official request from Health Secretary Matt Hancock

The Tory high-flyer last weekend demanded social media giants remove suicide and self-harm material from their sites after the father of a 14-year old teenager blamed Instagram for her death.

PUSH FOR SCREEN LIMIT…

EXCLUSIVE: For the first time, Chief Medical Officer lays down usage guidelines

Sally Davies recommends a break every 2 hours, no social media at before bed

It comes after Ian Russell blamed Instagram for the death of his daughter Molly

But Dam Sally will report there is no definitive link between technology and growing mental health problems among children and young people.

After retirement, Sandusky hosted many summer football camps and was active in The Second Mile, a children's charity he founded in State College, Pennsylvania, in 1977.[36]

President George H. W. Bush praised the group as a "shining example" of charity work in a 1990 letter,[37] one of that president's much-promoted "Thousand points of light" encouragements to volunteer community organizations.[33]

Citing Sandusky's work with The Second Mile charity to provide care for foster children, then U.S. Senator Rick Santorum honored Sandusky with an Angels in Adoption award in 2002.[38] On November 15, 2011, the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute, a non-profit adoption awareness organization, rescinded its 2002 Angels in Adoption award to Jerry and Dorothy Sandusky.[39] Santorum, then running for the Republican nomination for President, said he was "devastated" by the scandal.[40]

Former Eagles head coaches Dick Vermeil and Andy Reid, former Phillies owner Ruly Carpenter, Matt Millen from ESPN, actor Mark Wahlberg, Arnold Palmer, and football player Franco Harris, among others, served on the Honorary Board of Second Mile.[41]

During the time period that Sandusky was being investigated by the Office of the Attorney General, investigators served subpoenas on the Second Mile to get records of boys who had been through the program as well as Sandusky's travel and expense records. As it turned out, the records from 2000 to 2003 were missing. Record keepers later found files for one year, but the records for the other three years were never found.[42

Any anons better than me at finance digging able to see if PP paid “A Stronger Virginia” pact in order to donate to Gillespie. They paid EG $4mm and have a budget of $8mm that looks spoopy. All cash? Am I understanding that right?

One of the most fantastical parts of this story involving the Stratfor and Syrian hacks, Wikileaks, the FBI, and Sabu is that it was the FBI, under the administration of Obama and while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, who not only allowed but supervised email leaks to WikiLeaks. Extraordinary.

President George H. W. Bush praised the group as a "shining example" of charity work in a 1990 letter,[37] one of that president's much-promoted "Thousand points of light" encouragements to volunteer community organizations.[33]

“Former governor Ahn’s position of power over the victim was sufficient to dominate her free will,” the court said. “An appears to have seen the victim in the context of a superior-subordinate relationship and used it to commit adultery.”

Ahn Hee-jung had been a rising star in South Korea’s ruling party before he quit in March 2018, hours after the aide accused him of repeated sexual assault.

Seoul High Court overturned his acquittal on molestation charges.

“Former governor Ahn’s position of power over the victim was sufficient to dominate her free will,” the court said. “An appears to have seen the victim in the context of a superior-subordinate relationship and used it to commit adultery.”

Ahn, who ran for presidential nomination in 2017, had denied wrongdoing.

Q - If there have been or are going to be secret military tribunals that eventually the public can be made aware of who had military tribunals and what they were found guilty of.

The public probably can't know the details due to national security, but the broad strokes need to be made public. Not only for the Dems who and reachable, but for the Republicans and Independents who have a have a hard time with POTUS's demeanor. There are some that I talk to that are influenced by the media and are very disappointed in Trump. For the wrong reasons in my opinion.

They as skeptical about Q because of the many wrong interpretations, or multiple interpretations of the same sentence.

ANONS get it. We understand there is a bigger game going on and that it is dangerous.

At some point in the future, the vacuum of public information about the crimes needs to be filled, preferably coming from the AG or Acting AG jointly with the appropriate counter-part in the military.

The division in the country isn't only between Dems, GOP, various races for some people. It is division within families and friends who have at least one family member who "trusts the plan.

God bless all of you. I love my country, and I am so thankful for Q-Team and the brave men and women behind the scenes at all levels fighting for America's right to exist.

The End is Near for Monsanto as Lawyers Everywhere Gear Up for Massive Class Action

In August of 2018 stock prices for Bayer, the company that now owns Monsanto, took a nosedive after a California judge awarded defendant DeWayne Johnson $289 million in damages.

From 2012 to 2015 Johnson was a school groundskeeper for the Benicia unified school district in California where he regularly applied Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup (glyphosate) to the property. In 2014 he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), and claimed that Monsanto knowingly hid the carcinogenic effects of the product from consumers. The defendant’s law firm noted Monsanto’s actions had amounted fraud and malice.

The Media Relations personnel of the law firm of Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman, PC emailed me at 6:20 PM Friday, August 10th, the verdict rendered by the jury in the 8-week trial whereby “the jury found unanimously that Monsanto’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer caused Mr. Johnson to develop NHL, and that Monsanto failed to warn of this severe health hazard. Importantly, the jury also found that Monsanto acted with malice, oppression or fraud and should be punished for its conduct.” [Source]

After the verdict, analysts estimated that Bayer was facing a potential $800 billion in settlements for thousands of other similar cases pending against Monsanto. Since then, Bayer’s stock has continued to fall significantly.

>>5015356 (LB) regarding the AT&T thread. You wanted sauce. This is recent stuff.

I went through the process and saw the exec speak on it. So I cant get the speech copy, it's on AT&T internal. Got to the layoff.com and look up AT&T. It's difficult to directly sauce it as a continuation.

“I received a call this morning. I am affected. Out by Feb 18 or I can take 60 days to find another job.”

“A typical Fortune 100 corporation has a Price / Earnings ratio of 15 to 20. AT&T is selling for a third of that! Word has gotten out about what a poorly managed business this is.”

“Even though my VP in CDO said 5-6% would be cut, haven’t heard of anyone being notified yesterday.”

“I’ll be honest – I still can’t wrap my head around who we lost. The best are gone. People we desperately needed to stay are gone. I could see shock and disbelief on some of their faces as they were notified which pretty much mirrored my own.”

“I got my walking paper today. Seems that no matter how well you do your job this one was based on seniority I was top performer in 2018 but I guess that doesn’t matter. In my group area managers and some directors got the boot.”

While we don’t know the finer details of the AT&T layoffs, we did know they were coming. A report earlier this month said as much and included information from an internal memo sent out to managers.

(as an insider they know this is going on..and has been going on since 2014) They dont care who they fire they want the US workers gone.

Vatican official Hermann Geissler, who handled sex-abuse cases, quits after being accused of sex abuse by a former nun

A Vatican official who handles sex-abuse cases for the Catholic Church has quit two months after being accused of sexual abuse.

On Monday, Hermann Geissler resigned from his position as chief of staff in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a body that handles discipline in sexual abuse cases within the Catholic Church, according to a statement from the Holy See’s press office. Geissler maintained his innocence but said he was resigning to protect the church.

“[Father] Geissler decided to take this step to limit the damage already done to the Congregation and to his Community,” the office stated.

Last year, a former nun accused an unnamed priest of making sexual advances toward her while in confessional. That woman, Doris Wagner, later identified the priest to be Geissler, according to the National Catholic Reporter.

1933 - The ‘Pledge’ effectively conveyed the right, title and interest of the American people in the land known as America to the Custodian of the Alien Property for the use of the United States under the authority granted them within The Trading With The Enemy Act (TWEA).

This is an Op-Ed piece and I have added a few comments through-out. Please treat all of this as an opinion. Do not discount the charts.

Charts do not lie, low-volume market rally's do.

Fed Kills The Bear, But..

Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,

…as I noted two weeks ago in this missive, these were all of the ingredients necessary to bring the bear market that began in 2018 to its end.

For now.

The Fed Is Limited

While the Fed certainly gave the markets what it wanted in the near-term, in the longer-term there is actually very little the Fed will be able to do to stem the next recessionary bear market.

The chart below shows why. (cap 1)

In 2008, when the Fed launched into their “accommodative policy” emergency strategy to bail out the financial markets, the Fed’s balance sheet was only about $915 Billion. The Fed Funds rate was at 4.2%.

If the market fell into a recession tomorrow, the Fed would be starting with roughly a $4 Trillion dollar balance sheet with interest rates 2% lower than they were in 2009. In other words, the ability of the Fed to “bail out” the markets today, is much more limited than it was in 2008.

“So what? There are plenty of bonds to buy.”

True, but there are other factors at play which will also dramatically limit the effectiveness of further rounds of accommodation. **

When the Fed launched QE in 2009, market valuations had been reverted to below the long-term average and investor sentiment had been completely washed out. The massive selling that occurred as the markets collapsed left a huge amount of “pent up” demand for equities. (bullshit)

Today, that is no longer the case.

Valuations are no longer cheap by historical standards, but instead are expensive by virtually every measure.

As Goldman Sachs pointed out recently, the market is pushing the 89% percentile or higher in 6 out of 7 valuation metrics. (see cap 3)

Furthermore, the market is not grossly oversold and deviated well below long-term trends as it was in 2008. As Dana Lyons recently penned:

“We used exponential regression smoothing to find the ‘best fit’ trend line on the [Shiller data] series from 1871 (h/t to Doug Short for the concept.)

After finding the best fit trend line for the composite, we can measure how far above or below prices are at a given time. As it turns out, this past September saw the composite reach 122% above the trend line, i.e., it was 122% “overbought”. In nearly 150 years, the only months that saw prices more overbought than that were those encompassing the 1999-2000 market top — the most excessive, bubbly top in U.S. market history.” (this is true)

While markets can certainly remain extended for much longer than logic would predict, they can not, and ultimately will not, stay overly extended indefinitely.

The important point here is simply this. While the Fed may have curtailed the 2018 bear market temporarily, the environment today is vastly different than it was in 2008-2009. Here are a few more differences:

Unemployment is 4%, not 10+%

Jobless claims are at historic lows, rather than historic highs.

Consumer confidence is optimistic, not pessimistic. ( Do not agree here)

Corporate debt is a record levels and the quality of that debt has deteriorated.( totally agree)

The government is already running a $1 trillion deficit in an expansion not half that rate as prior to the last recession.

The economy is extremely long is a growth cycle, not emerging from a recession.

Pent up demand for houses, cars, and other durables has been absorbed. (See demand destruction and the cash for clunkers program the hussein admin rolled out to 'help' the auto mfg shortly after the '08 crash)

Production and Services measures recently peaked, not bottomed.

In other words, the world is exactly the opposite of what it was when the Fed launched “monetary accommodation”previously. Logic suggests that such an environment will make further interventions by the Fed less effective.

The only question is how long will it take the markets to figure it out?

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** plenty of supply but who is going to buy these? They are just being rolled off due to maturation imo.

What is missing in the markets got to where they are now. Cap 3 is my addition and shows exactly how we have arrived here. cap 2 sort of hints it the issues that have created cap 1 but make no mistake, cap 3 is why we have these problems.

What Does Jerry Sandusky Have to Do With Hillary Clinton, David Brock, @Funder Dworkin and Trump-Stormy?

May 2018

A lot more than people might think.

Astroturfing isn’t a valid “communications” or “marketing” tactic. It’s a sign crimes have occurred. We’ve seen it with the Clinton campaign against Bernie Sanders and later, Trump, and the post-election dystopian hellscape of mainstream media and social media.

So, here’s the deal. The disgraced convicted pedophile and former Penn State assistant coach is serving a long sentence for decades of sexual predation on vulnerable young boys, primarily foster children. Most people don’t know that fallout continues after five years. Penn State still faces lawsuits from victims and has paid out $109 million to settle 34 claims. Three living administrators who heard many valid claims of Sandusky’s sexual abuse on the campus under cover of the football progr

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke says that newly revealed details about the Fed's bank bailout were kept secret to prevent a stigma against banks that took part. Alex Wong/Getty Images

A new report by Bloomberg Markets Magazine details trillions of dollars in secret federal loans made to the big banks during the 2008 financial crisis, a process that helped them rake in billions of dollars in undisclosed profits. Here, some key numbers that illuminate the Federal Reserve's "breathtaking" $7.7 trillion bank bailout:

29,000

Pages of federal documents, courtesy of the Freedom of Information Act, and central bank records that Bloomberg combed through to reveal a "fresh narrative of the financial crisis"

More than 21,000

Number of transactions detailed in those pages

$7.7 trillion

Amount in undisclosed loans the Federal Reserve made to struggling financial institutions, according to the new Bloomberg report. That "dwarf[s] the Treasury Department's better-known $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program [TARP]," say Bob Ivry, Bradley Keoun, and Phil Kuntz at Bloomberg

$13 billion

Estimated amount in previously undisclosed profits the six largest banks — JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs Group, and Morgan Stanley — took in, thanks to those loans and the Fed's below-market rates. Unlike the TARP funds, "the loans came with virtually no strings attached for the banks," says Travis Waldron at Think Progress

$160 billion

Amount in TARP funds the big six received

As much as $460 billion

Amount the big six borrowed from the Fed, as calculated by Bloomberg and measured by peak daily debt

$1.2 trillion

Amount that banks referenced in the new report required on Dec. 5, 2008, "their single neediest day." The Federal Reserve didn't reveal to anyone which banks were in such dire need, say Ivry, Keoun, and Kuntz, and "bankers didn't mention that they took tens of billions of dollars in emergency loans at the same time they were assuring investors their firms were healthy."

$86 billion

Amount that Bank of America Corp. owed the central bank when then-CEO Kenneth D. Lewis wrote shareholders saying that he was at the helm of "one of the strongest and most stable banks in the world" on Nov. 26, 2008

$107 billion

Amount in secret loans that Morgan Stanley took in a single month, in September 2008

1 out of 10

Share of the country's delinquent mortgages that amount could have paid off

$6.8 trillion

Total assets held by the big six on Sept. 30, 2006

$9.5 trillion

Total held on Sept. 20, 2011. Rather than help curb the practice that caused the financial crisis, "the Fed and its secret financing helped America's biggest financial firms get bigger and go on to pay employees as much as they did at the height of the housing bubble," say Ivry, Keoun, and Kuntz

POTUS suggested we (read) their full statements to avoid being duped by the Fake News.

So I read the complete: (29 January 2019 Worldwide Threat Assessment)

This is a description of CHINA from that assessment.

(pg. 25)

The Coming Ideological Battle

Chinese leaders will increasingly seek to assert China’s model of authoritarian capitalism as an alternative—and implicitly superior—development path abroad, exacerbating great-power competition that could threaten international support for democracy, human rights, and the rule oflaw.

 The actions of Xi and his advisers—doubling down on authoritarianism at home and showing they are comfortable with authoritarian regimes abroad—along with China’s opaque commercial and development practices, reward compliant foreign leaders and can be corrosive to civil society and the rule of law.

 At the 2018 Central Foreign Affairs Work Conference, Xi stated his desire to lead the reform of the global governance system, driving a period of increased Chinese foreign policy activism and a Chinese worldview that links China’s domestic vision to its international vision.

* China’s model of authoritarian capitalism ← Calling it like it is. imho.

(before and after his ‘retirement’) and disregarded them were sentenced to jail terms and probation in 2017. All three are wealthy, privileged men who were likely never questioned about anything they said or did before their choice to put easy operation of the school’s football program over the lives of dozens of young foster children finally caught up with them.

But good old Sandusky and former school administration lack of care or respect for common decency, much less the law, has diehard astroturf defenders in cyberspace.

How do I know? I’m part of a couple of loose-knit Twitter groups of people who, like me, are likely on an FBI or other government watch list for “subversive” activities. In my case, I’m on a list because I did the subversive activity of making a professional analysis of the Clinton Foundation’s charitable functions starting in early 2016 when someone suggested there might be some problems with the organization.

Gold repatriation refers to plans of various governments to bring home their gold stored outside the home country.

Many nations use foreign vaults for safe-keeping of part of their gold reserves. In 2014, there was movement by some European nations to return gold stored abroad back to the owner country. The Dutch De Nederlandsche Bank reduced its proportion of gold held by the New York Federal Reserve from 51% to 31%, and Austria and Belgium reviewed the possibility of taking similar measures.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_repatriation

Venezuela[edit]

Before 2012, the Central Bank of Venezuela held about 211 tons of its 365 tons of gold reserves in American, European, and Canadian banks. In January 2012, however, Venezuela completed the move of 160 tons of gold bars (valued at about $9 billion) back home. The operation was ordered by President Hugo Chávez in August 2011 and was overseen by Central Bank chair Nelson Merentes.[2]

The Netherlands[edit]

In 2014, 122.5 tons of Dutch gold reserves were returned to the Amsterdam from New York, where they had been stored in a vault of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; the De Nederlandsche Bank (NRC), the Dutch central bank, said that it "felt that in times of financial crisis, it was better to have the gold near at hand."[3] The Netherlands continues to store gold reserves in New York, Ottawa and London.[3]

Germany[edit]

In January 2013, the German central bank (Deutsche Bundesbank) announced plans to repatriate 300 tonnes of its 1,500 tons of gold from the US and 374 tonnes from France by 2020, in order to have half (1,695.3 tonnes) of its official gold reserves stored in Frankfurt.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10] The gold in the U.S. was earned by West Germany through trade surpluses in the 1950s and 1960s and was never moved out of the United States due to fear of invasion by the Soviet Union.[11][12][13] In 2013, a mere 5 tonnes were shipped due to logistical difficulties. However, Germany repatriated 120 t in 2014 (35 tonnes from Paris, 85 t from New York),[14][15][16][17][18] 210 t in 2015 (110.5 t from Paris and 99.5 t from New York)[19] and 200 t in 2016.[20] [21]

Government to Facebook Pipeline Reveals a Corrupt Mix of Social Media and the State

As the Free Thought Project has previously reported, the phrase “Facebook is a private company” is not accurate as they have formed a partnership with an insidious neoconservative “think tank” known as the Atlantic Council which is directly funded and made up of groups tied to the pharmaceutical industry, the military industrial complex, and even government itself. The Atlantic Council dictates to Facebook who is allowed on the platform and who is purged.

Because the Atlantic Council is funded in part by the United States government—and they are making decisions for Facebook—this negates the claim that the company is private.

Since our six million followers and years of hard work were wiped off the platform during the October purge, TFTP has consistently reported on the Atlantic Council and their ties to the social media giant. This week, however, we’ve discovered something just as ominous—the government to Facebook pipeline and revolving door.

It is a telltale sign of a corrupt industry or company when they create a revolving door between themselves and the state. Just like Monsanto has former employees on the Supreme Court and Pharmaceutical industry insiders move back and forth from the FDA to their companies, we found that Facebook is doing the same thing.

Below are just a few of corrupt connections we’ve discovered while digging through the list of current and former employees within Facebook.

The sad truth about what happened at Penn State is: everyone at that school privileged the football program and the school’s public reputation over the well-being of Sandusky’s massive number of young foster child victims over the course of decades.

It would be par for the course and likely not too shocking if Sandusky had groomed and had a sexual relationship with one boy who he brought to football games or had hanging around the locker room.

In an interview with Belgium broadcaster VTM Nieuws Sunday, Luc Coene, governor of Belgium’s central bank, confirmed that the bank is looking at how they can bring their gold reserves back into the country.

According to IMF data compiled by the World Gold Council, Belgium holds 227.4 metric tons of gold, representing 34.2% of its official foreign reserves. According to reports, most of the gold is held outside of the country with the Bank of England, the Bank of Canada and the Bank for International Settlements.

Switzerland

Save our Swiss Gold motion was a citizen movement that called for the central bank to hold at least 20 percent of its assets in gold, prohibit selling any gold in future and bring all its reserve of gold back in the country.[23][24] This referendum was held on November 30, 2014, but was lost.

Austria

Austria currently holds 80% of their 280 tons of gold in London, 17% in Austria, and 3% in

Switzerland.

Citing a need for risk diversification, Austria announced they will be repatriating gold from London during 2015. After the repatriation process has completed, 50% of Austria's gold will be held in Austria, 20% in Switzerland, and the remaining 30% in London.[25]

While nothing is too expensive for asylum seekers, their well-equipped flats are being pounded out in record time, and a whole host of helpers are always circling around them, homeless people are dying lonely in the cold

Great Books …. Christian man who researched Judaism for last 25 years and shows you they study Talmud and Kaballah and are the Serpent …. Bought his books and recites from their text and they pray to elders not God …

- 2008 The Clearing Corporation and The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation announced CCorp members will benefit from CCorp's netting and risk management processes, and will leverage the asset servicing capabilities of DTCC's Trade Information Warehouse for credit default swaps

Maligned as "deadbeat dads" or sexually and financially irresponsible inner-city fathers and overlooked in discussions of poverty and family policy, economically vulnerable nonresident fathers are a greatly misunderstood population.

Failing Our Fathers summarizes the most recent quantitative and qualitative research, and undertakes new analyses to fill in important gaps, to produce a comprehensive picture of who these fathers are, what types of relationships they have with their families and children, and the challenges they face meeting what their loved ones and taxpayers expect from them. The great majority of these men see their children on a regular basis, despite the financial, legal, and extra-legal barriers they face. Besides requiring fathers to support their children, we must enable them to do so by supplementing their earnings and supporting their co-parenting, in ways that parallel how we require and enable vulnerable single mothers to support their children. The book lays out specific reforms required to achieve this goal as well as tips for those resources for economically vulnerable nonresident fathers.

I've seen grown ass men be stuck with child support. Work their ass off all week and only bring home $25 because the rest went to child support and/or taxes. While the mother sits on her ass at home, fucking 3 other dudes, getting money from them, and also a check from the gov't for having 5 or 6 kids.

>why work if they don't have to

Professional breeders playing the system.

No different than career college students getting handouts to go to school but never put that schooling to use by getting a job.

A list of possibilities to search through for the Gillespie connection…

https://ballotpedia.org/Ed_Gillespie

Gillespie is the former chair of the Republican National Committee.[1] He owns Quinn Gillespie & Associates, a bipartisan lobbying firm he started with Jack Quinn. Gillespie once served as a counselor to former President George W. Bush. He was also an advisor for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign in 2012. In addition to the lobbying firm, Gillespie founded his own political strategy firm, Ed Gillespie Strategies. He is responsible for founding Crossroads GPS, a political advocacy group, with Karl Rove. In 2009, he co-founded the political advocacy firm Resurgent Republic. Gillespie was an aide to former House Majority Leader Dick Armey. Armey later went on to form the political action committee, FreedomWorks. Gillespie started his career as a Senate parking lot attendant.[2]

After retirement, Sandusky hosted many summer football camps and was active in The Second Mile, a children's charity he founded in State College, Pennsylvania, in 1977.[36]

President George H. W. Bush praised the group as a "shining example" of charity work in a 1990 letter,[37] one of that president's much-promoted "Thousand points of light" encouragements to volunteer community organizations.[3

Thousands points of light the sandusky charity

Sandusky founded charity ‘The Second Mile’ files for dissolution

CENTRE COUNTY, Pa. – The charity foundation founded by former Penn State coach and convicted child molester, Jerry Sandusky is going out of business. The Board of Directors of The Second Mile foundation filed last Friday, January 8 in Centre County Court a Petition for Distribution of Assets and the Dissolution of The Second Mile. The tax exempt charity was formed in 1977 to operate a home for foster children and is headquartered in Bellefonte. It grew into a statewide organization to help develop positive life skills and self-esteem for youth.

Since the disclosure of child sexual abuse against Jerry Sandusky, the foundation’s volunteer base and most importantly contributions have virtually disappeared.

In the aftermath of Sandusky’s indictment and conviction, The Second Mile programs, intellectual property and money have been transferred to other non-profit providers.

The petition seeks to have the Second Mile’s remaining assets be transferred to the Office of the Pennsylvania Attorney General which would deal any remaining claims against the organization.

#TrumpAppreciationDay for all those who get triggered when people tell you they have pride in something [these people are stupid] I kno theres still some 'WHITEPOWER' particles still floating around in some of the trailerparks.. so don't get confused!

President Trump Appoints Ronny Jackson, Who Withdrew From VA Head Consideration, to Chief Medical Advisor

President Donald Trump has appointed Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson to be his chief medical adviser and assistant, according to an announcement issued Saturday.

The decision comes months after Jackson, who has served as a White House physician since 2006, withdrew his nomination to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs in April 2018. The withdraw came after mounting allegations of professional misconduct against Jackson, including claims of drinking on the job and overprescribing drugs like Ambien.

He was also accused of wrecking a government vehicle at a Secret Service going-away party while under the influence of alcohol. The allegations led to a Pentagon investigation, during which Jackson returned to the White House's medical unit as a staff physician, according to CNN.

In a statement at the time, Jackson described the allegations as “completely false and fabricated.”

In an interview on Fox and Friends in April, Trump blasted Democrats for putting forward the allegations against Jackson.

“He would have done a great job… and they’re trying to destroy a guy,” Trump said. “There’s not proof of this. There’s no proof of this.”

The Pentagon is continuing to investigate Jackson's alleged professional misconduct.

Jackson's new appointment also comes shortly after the President's decision to re-nominate him for a second star in his military rank after the previous congress failed to act on his nomination.Last year, Jackson led the medical team that conducted Trump’s physical exam. The Navy doctor said the President was in excellent health and has “incredibly good genes,” according to the Associated Press.

Feb. 3 (UPI) – President Donald Trump has appointed Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, the president's former physician who withdrew his nomination as secretary of Veterans Affairs, to serve again as assistant to the president and chief medical adviser.

The appointment reinstalls Jackson as Trump's personal physician.

Jackson's new position was among 37 appointments announced Saturday from the Executive Office of the President.

Last March, Trump nominated Jackson for the cabinet post before allegations of drinking on the job, improperly dispensing medication and creating a hostile work environment.

Jackson, who has denied all allegations against him, also withdrew from his position as the president's physician and became a member of the White House medical unit

It’s the Cloward Piven Strategy v2.0 : If they can’t import them, they will just breed them until we are overwhelmed. And they got “Conservatives” to embrace it.

But I’m sure Idealogy will overcome Genetics any day. Surely the Emptional Based Helier system callled the Egalitarian contract that we are forced to abide by while the other 93% of the worlds population doesn’t will work out just fine

Whether it’s giving every investor access to asset classes and customizable portfolios traditionally only available to institutional investors with the first US ETF, helping to accelerate the industry transition from commissions to fees, or building impact investing funds that not only do well but also “do good,” at State Street Global Advisors our focus has always been on Responsible Innovation that benefits investors and the world.

For us, designing funds isn’t just about offering cost-efficient access , but meeting needs, solving problems and exceptional performance. From our roots as an indexing pioneer to our capabilities in active, smart beta and alternatives, our clients’ investing challenges have been the catalyst for our innovation for more than 35 years.

1970’s

1978 – State Street Global Advisors is established to provide investment management services to institutional investors; the firm launches one of the industry’s first index equity funds.

1979 – Building on our early indexing success in the US, we go international, introducing one of the industry’s first MSCI EAFE Index funds.

1990 – We open our first non-US locations in London and Hong Kong; live trading desks in both locations offer clients local insight and execution capabilities across all major regional markets.

1993 – Together with the American Stock Exchange, we launch the SPDR® S&P 500 ETF - the first ETF in the US, and the largest and most liquid security in the world.1 The product offers investors broader, more efficient access to capital markets.

1998 – We launch Sector SPDRs, the industry’s first family of sector-specific ETFs offering tactical asset allocation strategies to more investors.

1999 – Our collaborative work with the government of Hong Kong results in Asia ex-Japan’s first ETF, the Tracker Fund of Hong Kong, which was the largest IPO in history for the region at the time – raising over US$ 4 billion 2

1999 – We pioneer multi-asset class, liability-driven investing strategies designed to be more closely aligned with plan sponsors’ risk, return and cash-flow objectives.

2000’s

2000 – We create one of the first groups dedicated to serving the investment needs of sovereign wealth funds, central banks and government entities. Our Official Institutions Group (OIG) today serves 93 central banks, sovereign wealth funds, supranational and government clients worldwide and manages more than US$ 369 billion globally.3

2001 – We launch the first family of ETFs in Europe

2001 – We launch the ETF market in Australia with the SPDR S&P/ASX 200 Fund and the SPDR S&P/ASX 50 Fund tracking the flagship indexes of the Australian large cap market

2002—We launch the first locally-listed ETF in Singapore, the SPDR Straits Times Index ETF. Today this ETF is still the most-recognized vehicle tracking the nation’s flagship large cap index.

2003 – We join with local partners in Taiwan to launch the first local ETF, the Polaris Taiwan Top 50 Tracker Fund.

2003 – Assets under management surpass $1 trillion.

2004 – State Street Global Advisors and the World Gold Council launch the first gold-backed, exchange-traded security in the US market; the fund raises more than US$ 2 billion in just two months4.

2005 – We partner with China Asset Management to launch the first local Chinese ETF, the Shanghai SSE50 Index Fund.

2005 – We launch Asia’s first regional fixed income ETF, the ABF Pan Asia Bond Index Fund, currently the largest fixed income ETF across APAC with approximately US$ 4 billion in AUM5. This product was created with the EMEAP (Executives' Meeting of East-Asia and Pacific Central Banks) Group, which refers to the group of 11 central banks or monetary authorities in the East Asia and Pacific region, namely Australia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. PAIF is one of the Group's initiatives to further develop the Asian bond market.

Fuck you. That is a stupid rule. You have small little hive mind if you think what I posted is inappropriate or anything less than flattering. Like throwing a challenge flag for no fucking reason bye bitch nigga.

The film is based loosely on Eminem's actual upbringing, and follows white rapper B-Rabbit (Eminem) and his attempt to launch a career in a genre dominated by African-Americans. The title is derived from 8 Mile Road, the highway between the predominantly black city of Detroit and Wayne County and the predominantly White Oakland County and Macomb County suburbs. It was filmed mostly on location.

8 Mile was a critical and commercial success. Eminem won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Lose Yourself".

Feb. 1 (UPI) – The worst flu outbreak on record in Japan has affected millions of people, with many patients hospitalized or in critical condition, according to reports.

The total number of flu patients has surpassed 2.2 million across the country, and the infections have shown no signs of stopping, NHK reported Friday.

According to Japan's ministry of health labor and welfare, more than 5,000 hospitals and clinics were on average reporting 57 flu patients per institution. The number is an increase from the previous winter, when hospitals were reporting an average of 54 patients per institution.

This anon is related to Edison, and also became a researcher and have worked with Intellectual Property re: scientific "invention." Lotta Edison-hate I've seen on here and on half, claiming he was a fraud who "stole" the inventions of others, so I thought I'd share the above links. I'll talk some about IP too, since it will become increasingly relevant as China's theft of it comes more and more to the fore of our work here.

Didn't know Edison personally, obvs, and heard he was a bit of a tyrant as a boss, but it's unlikely he contributed nothing to the success of his company, it appears he was an actual inventor. Yes, he took investments from cabal bankers, but he appears to have bought the patents to initial inventions he didn't himself create, not to have stolen them. And if you want to do business in the area of R&D, you need loans from banks because it will be awhile before you have a product to fund your overhead; taking loans/investments from the cabal doesn't mean you're in the cabal.

Two types of inventors, generally: the abstract kind than envisions entirely new ways natural laws can be understood or made to function, and the practical type that devises useful applications for our existing understanding of natural laws. Edison seems to have been more a practical inventor type than the abstract type like Tesla. Which is why Edison also became successful in business. POTUS's uncle was a chemist, and POTUS clearly has a practically innovative mind, which is why he, too, has been so successful in business. Invention also isn't typically a one-off type deal, but happens at many levels involving many contributors. From spitballing to proof-of-concept to production. Another reason POTUS is successful is understanding how to manage big-picture projects, which team-member is best for which job, how to get them to work together on an overarching, long-term goal. That kind of executive oversight in Q team's work with us is apparent to me also.

For a given product, there will typically be a large portfolio of patents. Patents for proof-of-concept, and for specific applications, and for this or that tweak/adaptation, and for this or that production method, etc etc etc. My speculation is (based on the evidence we have) that the type of tech knowledge China steals from us is typically late-stage practical stuff, i.e. copying whatever final product we got into production phase. This short-sightedness will work to our advantage, bc they won't have banked the foundational knowledge to reinvent new stuff. Much easier to prove someone stole your ideas when it's literally the same product down to the detail. A little harder if they can claim, "hey, that foundational science you got there, that's just an idea anyone could come up with. We did too! But these new products we developed are totally our own, promise!"

>* "I think the greatest sin is bringing children into the world that have disease from their parents. That have no chance in the world to be a human being, practically. Delinquents. Prisoners. All sorts of things. Just marked when they're born.

THIS IS TRUE

BUT IF YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH THEN CLOSE YOU EYES AND EARS - OH AND YOUR MOUTH

The executive order on 12.21.17 states that anyone involved or in cahoots with anyone involved in crimes against humanity or human trafficking will have their assets frozen and seized by the US Treasury and US State Dept

‪[P] Payseur hidden TRUST at 55 Water Street NY. ‬

‪$1.7 quadrillion in value!‬

‪1,700,000,000,000,000.00‬

‪$1.7 Q was the amount processed in a year, not its holdings‬

‪(17 and Q 😎)‬

It’s worth WAY more‬

‪ALL inside or related to people inside USA. ‬

‪All those assets belong to US now.‬

Perspective…

US debt ~ $21 Trillion

US GDP ~ $125 trillion

Rothschild family $500 trillion

Payseur family $1700 trillion

A stack of one dollar bills equal to $100 and measures 0.43 inches high, which means that $1 trillion dollar bills would stack to a height of approximately 67,866.16 miles. Which means 1 Quadrillion or 1,000 Trillion dollars stacked would take you 67,866,160 MILES high.

Some distance perspectives :

That would take you 2/3 of the way to the Sun which is 93,000,000 miles away.

$1,700,000,000,000,000

divided by 330,000,000 people in America would be $5,515,515 per person

$1,700,000,000,000,000

divided by 7,000,000,000 people in the world would be $242,857.14 per person

This is just 1 trust, on 1 family, out of approximately 10,000,000 assumed violators of this executive order.

In 1997, Gillespie joined the lobbying firm Barbour, Griffith & Rogers, and advised Senate Republicans during the impeachment of Bill Clinton.[13]

In 2000, Gillespie founded the lobbying firm Quinn Gillespie & Associates with Jack Quinn, and within a year had an income of $8.5 million and was 11th on Fortune's list of the most powerful lobbying firms in the US.[13] One of the firm's clients was Enron, which paid it $1,225,000, including $700,000 to lobby the Department of Energy and the Executive Office of the President to resist efforts to re-regulate the western electricity market during the California Electricity Crisis.[14][13][15] Gillespie has said that he was unaware of Enron's deceptive accounting practices.[16] By the end of 2002, Quinn Gillespie & Associates had received $27.4 million in lobbying fees.[17]

In 2007, Quinn Gillespie & Associates represented more than 100 clients.[16] The firm lobbied on behalf of AT&T, Bank of America, and Microsoft in the years 2001-2007, earning more than $3.2 million.[16] In 2016, the firm reported $17.2 million in revenue from federal lobbying.[16] The firm pitched to potential clients that Gillespie, due to his involvement with the White House and association with individuals in power, could leverage those relationships to benefit clients.[16]

In 2016, Gillespie lobbied on behalf of the health insurance company Anthem, as the nation's second-largest insurance firm tried to merge with third-largest insurance firm Cigna.[16] A federal judge blocked the mergers, citing insurance regulators who said the merger would raise costs and reduce competition in the health insurance market.[16]

Gillespie shut down his lobbying firm Ed Gillespie Strategies shortly before launching his campaign for governor in January 2017.[16]

The conservative government watchdog Judicial Watch said that Gillespie's ties to corporations may pose a conflict of interest for him as governor, and that this is a "nonpartisan concern".[16] Gillespie's former clients Anthem, AT&T, Microsoft, and Bank of America have ongoing interests in the state of Virginia, and these corporations or their top executives have donated to the Gillespie 2017 campaign.[16] Gillespie voluntarily released the list of his clients, disclosing more than is required by state law.[16]

The Ukrainian government hired Haley Barbour, former Republican National Committee chairman and founding partner of BGR Group, to lobby in the United States just after Trump was elected, according to foreign lobbying registration documents filed with the Justice Department. Ed Rogers, the chairman of BGR, was hired for the lobbying work, too. The firm has ties to this White House: The Trump transition team held meetings with lobbyists at BGR Group’s offices, according to the Washington Post. And Rogers is “as inner circle Jeff Sessions as they come,” a source with knowledge of their relationship told me on condition of anonymity, referring to Attorney General Jeff Sessions. (Both men are from Alabama.) BGR also worked with Corey Lewandowski.

Respectfully disagree. I think it's time for a show of support, and Presidents Day seems like a great choice. Those who fear confrontation can give it a pass. We are a majority. The left is a dwindling minority. Can't hurt to make that point, by the simple act of wearing a hat or t-shirt for Presidents Day.

They all do. JPM stated in 2008 they had $88t in 'assets' back in 2008. Those places all had an open conduit to do the FRB's dirty work in the markets i.e Exchange Stabilization FUND (ESF) commonly known as Plunge Protection team.

It's all paper assets based of derivatives trading.

They also looted MF Global's customer accounts too. This was done to kill off the retail and contract trading in the silver markets.

Attorneys for convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein touted his close friendship with Bill Clinton and even claimed the billionaire helped start Clinton's controversial family foundation in a 2007 letter aimed at boosting his image during plea negotiations, FoxNews.com has learned.

The 23-page letter, written by high-powered lawyers Alan Dershowitz and Gerald Lefcourt, was apparently part of an ultimately successful bid to negotiate a plea deal before Epstein could be tried for using underage girls in a sex ring based in Palm Beach, Fla., and his private island estate on the 72-acre Virgin Islands home dubbed “Orgy Island.” Epstein spent 13 months in prison and home detention after agreeing to a plea deal in which he admitted to soliciting an underage girl for prostitution.

"Mr. Epstein was part of the original group that conceived the Clinton Global Initiative, which is described as a project 'bringing together a community of global leaders to devise and implement innovative solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges,” read the July 2007 letter to the U.S. Attorney’s office in the Southern District of Florida. “Focuses of this initiative include poverty, climate change, global health, and religious and ethnic conflicts

Professor suspended a second time allegedly for requiring respectful class conduct

Media are spinning the story, students claim

Students at the University of Texas at San Antonio are rallying behind a professor there after she was suspended a second time allegedly for demanding respectful conduct while in her classroom.

The school suspended biology professor Anita Moss last semester after she called the police on a black student resting her feet on a chair. Moss was known to demand respectful behavior from students in her classroom, including “keeping their feet off chairs, putting away their phones and not talking.”

Though many presumed the incident was racially charged, a school investigation determined race was not a factor in Moss calling the police.

Now the school has suspended Moss again. The student newspaper The Paisano reported that Moss was yanked from the classroom due to “a new concern regarding classroom management.

Did you know? The Clintons have a history of close ties with Penn State's football program…& Hillary's brother played for Jerry Sandusky.

President George H. W. Bush praised the group as a "shining example" of charity work in a 1990 letter,[37] one of that president's much-promoted "Thousand points of light" encouragements to volunteer community organizations.